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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Bonnie Blackburn wrote: > From: "John Briggs" >> Can anyone point me in the direction of a history of the Plainsong >> and Mediaeval Music Society? I am particularly interested in who >> the founders were, and how they interacted with the liturgical >> scholars. I am struck by the way that the Henry Bradshaw Society >> volumes, for example, studiously ignore the music. Were they >> observing strict demarcation, or were they influenced by earlier >> scholars, such as William Maskell, who didn't consider the music to >> be part of the liturgy? > > There is a brief introduction by David Hiley, 'The Plainsong & > Mediaeval Music Society, 1888-1988', in Susan Rankin and David Hiley > (eds.), Music in the Medieval English Liturgy: Plainsong & Mediaeval > Music Society Centennial Essays (Oxford, 1993), 1-7. It's short > because 'any attempt to write such an account runs into a more or > less insuperable obstacle: the lack of early records of the Society's > activities'. He points to Dom Anselm Hughes, Septuagesima (London: > PMMS, 1959) as a valuable source of information up to the late 1950s. Thanks, that sounds promising. It rather looks as if there isn't specific information about the founding of the society. John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html